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Post by The Great MM on Aug 7, 2012 19:52:24 GMT -5
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Post by Inferno Rodan on Aug 7, 2012 21:13:06 GMT -5
Post intros.
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Post by Omegarex24 on Aug 8, 2012 13:49:23 GMT -5
After their agreement to test out Darktide, the UCA obliged by sending Ben and his new machine to one of the mega-cities that covered parts of Ujiak. The lights were bright against the darkened sky, making this place look like a bustling metropolis...if it weren't completely abandoned. Darktide's armor was like a shadow against the lights of the city as Ben scanned his surroundings. Plenty of places to hide, plenty of buildings to topple over on to his opponents, and no one in sight to get hurt. Darktide, much like its predecessor, had been built for urban combat.
"Alright, Zach. Let's see what you've got."
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Post by The Great MM on Aug 8, 2012 19:40:25 GMT -5
In an equally great column of brilliant light, the Hessian appeared. Inside the monolith's cockpit, the playboy pilot Agent Zachary Styles grinned ear to ear. "City battle without having to worry about casualties or collateral... that's a first." He grinned, lifting up the Hessian's trademark gatling gun.
With a flick of a few switches, he opened a communications link with Darktide. "You over there, ole' Benny buddy? May the best man win!"
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Post by Inferno Rodan on Aug 8, 2012 20:03:27 GMT -5
FIGHT!
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Post by Omegarex24 on Aug 13, 2012 18:32:27 GMT -5
((OOC: Terribly sorry for the wait. Work eats my time, as usual. Greedy, soul sucking work.))
"Let's kick this off with a bang then," Ben replied, as he pressed the fire controls for the Penetration Cannons. A single, high velocity round exited the barrel with a thunderous roar as it slammed into the Hessian, penetrating the thick armor of the AKDF mech with relative ease, while the incendiary properties melted the ragged edges of the wound. The Hessian rocked back slightly from the impact, but otherwise stood its ground. Ben was counting on that, however, as Darktide kicked off the ground and rocketed right at the Hessian, Plasma Cutter extended as it carved a smoldering wound along the Hessian's flank.
But as Darktide went flying past, Zach turned the Hessian and unleashed his Crimson Beam, the red laser cutting through the armor on Darktide's side with surprising ease. Darktide rocked from the blast as Ben turned back to face the Hessian before firing the NVA Cannon, the crimson energy leaving a scorched trail across the Hessian's chest.
"Man, I love this thing! Let's see what this ECPC can do," Ben said, as he began to charge the Ion Linear Cannon, aimed right at the Hessian...
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Post by The Great MM on Aug 18, 2012 11:11:33 GMT -5
With a blinding flash of light and a titanic boom, the beam fired with the fury of the Gods of another world. The lumbering Hessian was too slow to avoid the beam, thus it struck like lightning. The juggernaut stumbled back, a twisting ball of flames and smoke rising from its chest. Thankfully the armor kept the innards safe, for now. Inside the cockpit, Agent Styles smirked. “Impressive.”
“Think so?” Ben replied through the intercom.
The hotshot didn’t respond in words. Instead the Hessian lifted its gatling gun and the weapon that had defeated so many kaiju began to fire! The sound was deafening as tank-sized rounds flew through the air at such speeds that they were virtually invisible! Darktide’s entire front side began to erupt into sparks and smoke as the ammo tore into it, cutting gashes and punching wholes in the black machine.
Darktide fell from its hovering, but landed on its feet just as the gun stopped firing. Inside Darktide, warning lights and sirens sounded. Some of the huge bullets had lodged into inner systems and jammed them! However, that was the least of his problems now. The Hessian’s “weapon hand” lifted up. A loud “POP!” came from the wrist as it flew forward, carried by four titanic jets. The hand, clenched in a fist, remained connected to the arm by a huge chain while it stretched out, delivering a powerful punch to Darktide’s cranium!
With a trail of smoke following behind the rocketing hand, it dropped Darktide like a ton of bricks, a crack now within its visor eye and skull! The jets on the hand kicked offline, allowing it to fall while the chain began to retract into the Hessian’s arm, pulling it back into place with a sounding lock.
On the ground, Darktide remained as sparks and smoke lifted from its dented skull. Standing several hundred meters away, the Hessian looked down at it while its crimson beam fired, striking the damaged cranium! The dark robot’s head was engulfed in a blanket of hell, blasting off small pieces of metal. The black goliath rolled onto its back, head engulfed in smoke and lingering fire.
“Again?” Zach commented, preparing another blast of his red beam.
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Post by Omegarex24 on Aug 23, 2012 10:11:38 GMT -5
"Not this time," Ben responded, as a shimmering barrier of force interposed itself between the black machine and the red beam, courtesy of the generator on Darktide's arm.
"I knew I should have paid more attention during your fight with that other guy."
"Yeah, but I got a bunch of new tricks this time," Ben said as he fired off another round from the MAC-3, the projectile catching the Hessian in the torso before exploding and ripping away more armor and circuitry. The Hessian rocked back from the blast, giving Ben the opportunity to bring Darktide to a standing position. But the Hessian, as durable as it was, was not about to go down without a fight, as the roar of rocket engines caught Ben's attention, right before the Hessian's rocket fist slammed into Darktide's abdomen. A loud CLANG resounded across the city as Darktide stumbled back. Zach aimed to capitalize on his opponent's momentary weakness by firing the Crimson Beam, but Ben was swift enough to dodge behind a building.
The laser beam sliced through structure like a hot knife through butter, as the top few floors of the building slid off before crashing to the streets below, sending a cloud of dust and smoke into the air. Zach braced himself for an attack...that never came. He quickly scanned the area, looking for some sign of his opponent, but found none.
"Where the hell could he have gone?"
"Right behind you," Ben answered, as a blazing hot stream of charged particles lanced into the Hessian from behind. The beam melted armor to slag in its wake as smoke poured from the hole in the Hessian's back. As warning klaxons blared, Zach sensors suddenly picked up Darktide, as the machine decloaked behind him.
"Since when did you get a cloaking device?"
"Since now. Oh, and I've got one more trick up my sleeve."
And with that, Ben rushed forward and fired the Harmonics Disruptor at the Hessian. The rippling waves of sound warped the air around them as they slammed into the Hessian's armor. The plates and rivets vibrated as the entire machine shook from the blow, huge cracks forming in the Hessian's armor as the Harmonics Disruptor literally shook the machine apart.
"...the hell was that?!"
"New gadget. It's real effective, as you can tell. But sometimes, you just can't beat the classics," Ben said, as he fired a volley of missiles at the Hessian...
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Post by The Great MM on Aug 26, 2012 17:29:50 GMT -5
The explosive warheads struck the Hessian like a swarm of angry bees. The weapons detonated across his bulky body, dotting the monolith with multiple shads of orange, red, and yellow. However, as the smoke and fire spread about, it would take much more than that to take down the A.K.D.F.’s champion.
Inside the cockpit, Agent Styles smirked as a bead of sweat fell down his cheeks. “Nice light show, Ben! But it’ll take more than that to take me and Hessy down!”
As one hand turned on the mech’s air conditioning to keep him comfortable in the battle, the other hand gripped the controls. The so-called “weapon hand” lifted up, poking out of the cloud of carnage. A harpoon emerged from the wrist and electrical bliss crackled within the weapon. Before Darktide could get out of range, the harpoon launched! Faster than the eye could see, the pointed weapon stabbed deep into Darktide’s mech! The tip was designed to penetrate thick armor, but that wasn’t the worst part…
Electricity was!
The weapon surged raw power directly into Darktide’s inner systems, making the eyes and glowy parts start to flash. The controls began to fade in and out as a grinding noise came from the stab wound. Stuck on the ground with sparks erupting from its joints, Darktide was helpless as Zach checked his systems, making sure nothing too important was damaged in the previous assault. When everything checked out, his focus was again directed to Darktide. The harpoon’s built-in power supply was starting to run dry, but it had just enough for the A.K.D.F. machine to close the distance…
Pushing the Hessian to its speed limits, Zach swung his gun like an oversized baseball bat! With a tremendous bang, the weapon was clubbed against Darktide’s skull! The head splintered, sending shards of armor and gears bouncing off of the Hessian. The black giant fell to the Earth, jaw hanging loosely with wires and bits of its inner systems hanging loosely. If it had been an organic creature, it would no doubt have a concussion now!
“That was dirty.” Ben Davidson radioed to his friendly rival as warning sirens began to blast.
“Nope.” Zach commented as he fired the crimson beam, but not at Darktide. The thin beam instead hit the bottom floor of a looming building standing just a few dozen meters away from the collapsed Darktide. “This is.”
Like a tree, the structure collapsed onto Darktide! The building shattered like glass on impact, burying the machine under countless tons of debris. A huge cloud of dust and smoke spread about as the Hessian stood tall, weapon ready to fire. “Always wanted to do that…” He said to himself, remembering so many battles against kaiju that took place in populated cities where such tactics could never be done.
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Post by Omegarex24 on Aug 28, 2012 12:13:16 GMT -5
As the Hessian waited, Zach could hear a high pitched hum, as well as seeing glowing particles entering into the rubble. He had heard that sound before, and seen what those particles meant. But by then, it was too late, as the charged particle stream erupted from the rubble, striking the Hessian in the side and burning a nice groove in the AKDF machine's armor. This spoiled Zach's aim, as his shotgun discharged, the pellets catching the emerging Darktide in the flank, rather than the face.
"I got a new sensor package," Ben said as he brought his machine to an upright position. "Thought I'd test it out."
"Yippee for me," Zach answered sarcastically.
As they talked, Ben closed the distance and stabbed forward with the Plasma Cutter into one of the cracks generated by the Harmonics Disruptor before ripping the blade upwards, severing gears and cables as Ben ripped it out of the Hessian. The smoldering edges of the wound spread smoke and fire internally as Ben moved around the much slower Hessian, firing the NVA Cannon as he went, the crimson particle beam striking the Hessian in the head, warping metal plating and fuzzing out Zach's visual sensors for a moment. Although h could still track by radar, it was less effective than being able to see what he was shooting at. When his sight came back, all he could see was the barrels of the MAC-3 aimed right at his chest, as Ben prepared to fire at point-blank range...
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Post by The Great MM on Sept 3, 2012 14:48:08 GMT -5
The rounds rip into the Hessian’s chest, blowing off chunks of steel and inner workings. Inside the cockpit, Agent Styles gripped the controls and gritted his teeth. “Nice gun, but mine’s bigger.”
The gatling gun lifted up, just as close to Darktide’s chest as he was to his. The barrels began to spin, burying dozens of tank-sized rounds into the dark armor! The shadow machine stumbled back, nearly tripping as pieces of its front side rained to the ground. With numerous wounds adorning its chest and abdomen, Darktide’s blades quickly extended again.
“No you don’t!” Zach shouted through the intercom while swinging the Hessian’s gun downward, striking the wrists of his foe!
The hands erupted into sprays of spark and smoke as the blow fractured armor and destroyed power cables. Instantly, warning lights and sounds began to blast Ben’s cockpit. The blow had damaged <i>something</i> in the wrists! As arcs of electricity leaped from the machine’s hands, the Hessian gun began to fire again…
Targeting Darktide’s knees!
The tank-sized rounds carved through the high-tech armor, shredding it and exposing innards! The magnificent machine fell to its knees, plumes of fire and smoke lifting from the caps. As sparks began to fountain from its legs, Darktide’s head remained motionless while the Hessian swung out with its huge gun like a bat… posed to take his head off!
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Post by Omegarex24 on Sept 7, 2012 20:04:43 GMT -5
But while Darktide may have been on its knees, the machine's arms still functioned, as Ben swung a Barrier Field to intercept the incoming gun. The force shield rippled as Darktide rocked from the kinetic force of the impact, but was otherwise unharmed. But as the Hessian recoiled from the failed attack, Ben took the opportunity to fire the NVA Cannon right into the Hessian's face! The heavy particle cannon stripped armor from the superstructure and left a smoldering edge to the wound, in addition to blinding the Hessian momentarily.
Ben took the opportunity to get out of the way of a reprisal strike, as Darktide's knees seemed functional, if a little stiff. With his machine now in the full upright position, Ben fired off the Harmonics Disruptor again, shattering more armor on the Hessian's flank. Cracks and exposed circuitry now covered much of the Hessian's otherwise impenetrable armor, which Ben soon widened with another volley of missiles, the dual warhead weapons increasing the number of exploitable gaps. But the Hessian, slow as it was, was a hard nut to crack, as the Crimson Beam flashed once again, cutting into and through armor on Darktide's torso.
"And for my next trick," was all Ben said as Darktide disappeared from view.
Zach cursed under his breath as he swiveled, looking for his opponent, unaware that Ben was now several blocks away, with a few buildings between him and the Hessian, and the Ion Linear Cannon aimed to blow through them and hits its intended target...
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Post by The Great MM on Sept 12, 2012 21:30:45 GMT -5
The Hessian stood like an oversized, modern statue before the destructive beam punched holes through the lines of buildings! Before Zach could react, the weapon detonated on his left side, tearing off armor plates and layers of inner workings! “God damn” Zach spat as the Hessian stumbled back, nearly collapsing as white-hot steam lifted from its frame. “You want a long range fight, no problem!”
The Hessian leaned forward, its arms nearly striking the ground. “I’ve always wanted to do this in a city!” Referring to the fact the most powerful weapon was banned from use in his world unless in dire circumstances…
However, here it was not.
As Ben charged up another blast of molten power, Zach charged up the neutron blast! Rapidly, power surged from the machine’s core and into the huge cannon on its back and shoulder. A faint glow gathered in the darkness of the barrel before a hum began to echo between structures. The faint light began to brighten, so bright that it was as if a second sun.
“NEUTRON BLAST!”
The ground around the Hessian shot upward as if a volcano blew open beneath him. The buildings surrounding him cratered inward, blowing out the opposite sides. At the same time, Darktide’s weapons fired…
The Neutron Blast ripped through the openings carved by the previous attack, literally splitting the buildings like cookies. The second beam was engulfed by the neutron blast, swallowing it up in the immense energy. Inside Darktide, every warning light flashed, but it was too futile. The beam was too fast and too powerful. The attack not only ruined the ground beneath it, reducing it to steaming, glowing slag, but leveled blocks all around it!
And then it hit with the force of an angry god’s war hammer! Upon striking Darktide, the black machine was blanketed in an explosion so large and fierce that it completely swallowed him up! The ground ripped apart and cried under the punishment as shockwaves blew out windows all across the battlefield! The robot’s armor was put to the ultimate test as plates and panels were either torn off or vaporized by the powerful attack. Not only that, but it was catapulted upside down for several blocks, body bouncing across the ground and surrounding ruin like a ball in a pinball machine. Each smash denting the weakened armor and torn up body even more…
When it was all said and done, the land between the Hessian and Darktide was barren. What was once a decent-sized section of cityscape had been reduced to a level, barren wasteland of ruin and rubble… and in the carnage, Darktide lay still, its body set aflame, armor shattered like glass, and pilot dazed…
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Post by Omegarex24 on Sept 19, 2012 13:41:52 GMT -5
(Sorry for the delay. Work ate my time, as usual.)
"Holy shit," was all Ben could say as he shook the cobwebs from his vision. A few monitors had gone out, but the ones that were still operational showed the Hessian standing tall. Around them, the cityscape burned in the aftermath of the devastating attack. Ben took a quick assessment of the damage. The NXT outer layer had been stripped almost completely, having expended itself to block some of the blast. Likewise, much of the TiTun outer layer had been heavily warped by the blast. It was designed to withstand incredible power and heat, but not quite like this.
"Don't tell me you're gonna give up after that," Zach called out over the radio, a friendly teasing sound in his voice.
"Not by a long shot," was all Ben said, as he pressed the fire controls for the Ion Linear Cannon. With nothing between the two of them, it was an easy shot to make, as the beam struck the Hessian in the face, shearing through armor and circuitry like tissue paper. Zach reacted on instinct, firing a Shotgun blast. But at this range, the pellets struck Darktide's arms and legs, rather than his core, for which Ben was grateful. He was keeping his own weapon in reserve.
With his opponent momentarily distracted or blinded, Ben brought Darktide upright. The controls were a little sluggish at first, but a few circuit re-routes were all it took to get his machine moving again. And move he did, as he jetted right at the Hessian, firing off the Harmonics Disruptor as he jinked to the side, the sound waves shattering armor over the mammoth war machine's knees. The Hessian buckled for a moment, which was all Ben needed, as he came up from behind the Hessian before ramming the Plasma Cutter into the giant's back. Sparks and flames erupted from the wound, as Ben dragged the blade upwards, carving a swathe of destruction in its wake.
Now, with a convenient opening, Ben prepared to fire the NVA Cannon at point blank range, with the hope that he could strike something vital...
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Post by The Great MM on Sept 23, 2012 14:41:36 GMT -5
Ben’s aim was precise and his fingers squeezed the triggers of his war machine. In the midst of rubble, the Hessian stumbled. This battle was taking a lot from each robot. The brave pilot prepared to fire, but something suddenly happened. The sky split, spilling light as if rain. The brightness took both heroes by surprise, making them cover their eyes. It was as if a sudden nuclear blast erupted in the clouds!
As the light dimmed, a tremendous bang came from the Hessian. Something fell on top of it! The A.K.D.F. machine collapsed to its knees as a third, all-black robot landed on its shoulders. Spiked, tread-like feet began to grind, easily tearing into the Hessian’s body as it was pushed “face”-first into the ruined streets…
The burning, red eyes of Heidenreich burrowed holes straight through Darktide.
Adler Maynor’s German accented, distinctive voice came over the intercoms. “Miss me, Americans?”
Lifting up its upgraded left leg, Heidenreich brought it down upon Hessian’s head. The mighty treads shattered the already weakened armor like an eggshell! Inner gears and circuits spilled like brains. Inside the cockpit, Agent Styles could only muster a sudden gasp before the foot’s treads broke through the cockpit!
Either dead or dying, Zach was helpless as the head of his prized machine was ruined completely. Heidenreich’s alien weapon lifted from its back like an angry scorpion’s tail and sinister power tore through every inch of it. A blistering beam of green, swirling energy exploded from the tip and tore into Darktide’s damaged chest! The black machine stumbled back, its wound exploding outward in a disastrous display of carnage. The mech fell to a weak knee as Adler’s laugh came again.
“I’m much more powerful now!” He burst out in wicked, high-pitch laughter. “Now you will die like you deserve to.” His tone suddenly got serious.
(OOC: Maybe a quick battle between these two rivals before being forced apart by the powers that be?)
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